Thanks Yoav — this is an important post, and not just for the AI alignment community. What strikes me most is how CDV is becoming a connective methodology across domains that rarely talk to each other: chip verification, AV verification, robot SOTIF, and now AI alignment. Underneath all of them sits the same question safety people keep coming back to: how do you know what you don’t know? An explicit, evolving coverage map is the most practical answer I’ve seen for making that question tractable.
Coming from the SOTIF side (ISO 21448, scenario-based safety evaluation), I wrote an extension of your argument — mapping CDV onto the SOTIF four-quadrant model, connecting Layered CDV to the tree-like verification structure that robot SOTIF will need, and looking at what a standards-driven environment like China’s means for adoption: https://blog.autozyx.com/en/posts/robot-sotif-cdv-cross-domain/
Thanks Yoav — this is an important post, and not just for the AI alignment community. What strikes me most is how CDV is becoming a connective methodology across domains that rarely talk to each other: chip verification, AV verification, robot SOTIF, and now AI alignment. Underneath all of them sits the same question safety people keep coming back to: how do you know what you don’t know? An explicit, evolving coverage map is the most practical answer I’ve seen for making that question tractable.
Coming from the SOTIF side (ISO 21448, scenario-based safety evaluation), I wrote an extension of your argument — mapping CDV onto the SOTIF four-quadrant model, connecting Layered CDV to the tree-like verification structure that robot SOTIF will need, and looking at what a standards-driven environment like China’s means for adoption: https://blog.autozyx.com/en/posts/robot-sotif-cdv-cross-domain/
To help the post reach more readers in the Chinese AV and robotics safety community, I have also published a full Chinese translation (with Yoav’s kind permission): https://blog.autozyx.com/posts/coverage-driven-alignment/
Looking forward to your talk at FISITA ISC 2026.